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It is obvious to anyone who's not a lawyer and part of the system, that our legal system is broken, it protects hardened criminals and makes law abiding citizens into felons.
This guy's the perfect example - why don't you go sit down with the two raped girls and explain to them why the courts let this guy walk the streets after murdering another girl.
One of the costs of our legal system is that the protections apply to the obviously guilty as well as the possibly innocent.
The same protection that got this person a new trial is the one that will (hopefully) allow your attorney to have any jurors that just believe that "people shouldn't have guns" off your assault trial if you are accused of such when pulling a gun on an attacker. Of course, by your logic, the court could simply explain to that person that (s)he is not to let that factor into his/her decision, but that would hardly provide protection.
I know of one self defense case where the attacker was an off dury LEO (I think it was a sheriff's deputy). The would be victim who displayed his gun was convicted largely because of one person on the jury who made it clear civilians should not carry guns. I have not read the transcript, but the fact that such a person made it to a carry/defense case involving an ltC holder indicates either a failure of the court to protect the defendant's rights or a poor job of voir dire by defense counsel.